Word: balderdash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposite City Hall. A master at achieving personal publicity, he once objected strongly to a newspaper article, not because he was described as a thief, but because it said he was born at Waukegan, Ill. instead of in his own First Ward. Forty years ago, reporters took to writing balderdash poems, attributing them to Bathhouse John. Bathhouse John framed the poems, kept them in his office, claimed authorship. The Coughlin poem on Repeal...
...latest letter, dated in January, warns me that despite all I may read, "no Communist army has yet been defeated in Kweichow:" the Reds countermarch where they please, occasionally withdrawing before the National army, never embarrassed by it. In short, the whole story of Chiang's victories is balderdash...
...delegation of tariff powers to the President, today became the embattled defender of the Ship of State and the Constitution. Taking his cue from Oliver Wendell Holmes' stirring plea to save the Constitution's sea-going namesake from being ignominiously scuttled, the Senator from Idaho invoked all the sentimental balderdash at his command to keep the leaky old frigate and its battery of muzzle-loaders in the first line of the battle squadron against the iron-clads of despotism. Not one of the time honored bromides concerning the Constitution as the defender of Liberty was overlooked, and the overworked shades...
...world figure, and Harvard should be proud to have him return to Commencement. As for the libelous statements concerning Herr Hanfatsongl and the Naxi Party in general, we suggest that the National Students League discover a firm basis of fact to stand on before uttering nay more such hysterical balderdash. Howard S. Whiteside '34, Warren Richards...
...magazine's pages, I was referring to such phenomena as essays on Addison's small clothes and like subjects, and reviews like Mr. George Steven's recent "Syllabus of Syllables" (a parody comment on Miss Gertrude Stein's opera. "Four Saints in Three Acts.") Such items are "hogwash and balderdash," judged as criticism...